Rand Paul says he will make 2016 decision by spring

Sen. Rand Paul said Monday that he’ll wait until the spring before deciding whether to officially launch a bid for the White House.

“My wife and I are still talking about it, and we’ve agreed to continue talking about it, but I don’t think there will be a final decision made until the spring,” Mr. Paul told Breitbart.com.

Mr. Paul said his decision to run as a presidential candidate will depend on whether or not he believes the GOP is ready to endorse a “different” kind of Republican.

“There’s a lot of different variables, not just family life but also whether or not we think the electorate is warming up to these ideas and ready for maybe a different kind of Republican — a Republican that keeps the core values and beliefs of what we stood for but also has issues and areas of where we can reach out to new people,” he said.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the leading potential Democratic presidential candidate, said last week that she, too, will wait until the new year before deciding whether to run for her party’s nomination.

“I do have a unique vantage point and a set of experiences about what makes the United States operate well and what doesn’t, and what a president can do and should be doing,” Mrs. Clinton, a former first lady, told an audience at an event in Mexico City last week where she was traveling to promote student scholarship funding from billionaire Carlos Slim.

“So I am going to be making a decision around probably after the first of the year about whether I’m going to run again or not,” Mrs. Clinton told the audience, CBS News reported Monday.